{"id":68864,"date":"2018-12-11T17:01:07","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=68864"},"modified":"2018-12-11T17:01:48","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T16:01:48","slug":"katsina-federal-lawmaker-dumps-apc-for-pdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=68864","title":{"rendered":"Katsina federal lawmaker dumps APC for PDP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/arewa.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/apc-pdp.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">A member of the House of Representatives from Katsina State, Ibrahim Murtala, has defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).<\/p>\n<p>Murtala, who is representing Matazu\/Musawa Federal Constituency, announced his defection in a letter read by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on the floor of the House on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to NAN, Murtala, in the letter, said that he wished to inform the House and the general public that he was no longer a card-carrying member of the APC.<\/p>\n<p>Murtala said he would from now pursue his political career under the umbrella of the PDP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A member of the House of Representatives from Katsina State, Ibrahim Murtala, has defected from the All Progressives Congress (APC) to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Murtala, who is representing Matazu\/Musawa Federal Constituency, announced his defection in a letter read by the Speaker, Mr Yakubu Dogara, on the floor of the House on Tuesday. According [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[7077,320],"class_list":["post-68864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-defection-from-apc","tag-katsina"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}